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close to you Private View: Thursday 6 September 2001 18.30
- 21.00 Showing the work of Tom Gleeson and Claudine Hartzel, close to you explores myths of romance through artistic practices firmly based in conceptualism. Both artists investigate the fine line between image and its representation with new work made specifically for Hoxton Distillery. Gleeson's video and photographic work turns
to the cinematic excesses of romantic love, and to how this language
informs communication. A series of photographs of sleeping friends
and lovers fill one wall of Hoxton Distillery, while a video recounts
a tale of obsessional desire. Using the familiar language of fiction
and movies to describe love, Gleeson highlights the impossibility
of representing the visual and emotional through verbal description.
Tom Gleeson from Assumed Intimacies, Sometimes Real 1997 - 2001 Hartzel too looks to the dreams of romance in her multi-slide projector installation. Referencing the clichéd illustrations of Mills and Boon novels, she creates a parallel universe in the space of Hoxton Distillery, filled with utopian ideas and symbols of romance. Hartzel commissions a designer to paint photographs of herself in the style of illustrations from romantic fiction. A darkened space in Hoxton Distillery is illuminated by the slides of these paintings combined with kisses, arrows, text and site specific images.
Claudine Hartzel Based in New York, Tom Gleeson has shown his work during 2000 in the group exhibitions Snapshot at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore and Reciprocity Failure at Triskel Arts Centre in Cork. The video piece Fantasy Fallacy was also screened last year at the Irish Film centre in Dublin. Gleeson has had solo exhibitions in London, Dublin and San Francisco. His work will be featued in the September issue of MINED.
Tom Gleeson from Assumed Intimacies, Sometimes Real 1997 - 2001 Based in Glasgow, Claudine Hartzel exhibited last year at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, and in the group exhibitions The Department in Glasgow and Sodium Blindness in London. Her work has been written about extensively, and is included in the publication Surface: Contemporary Photographic Practice. Hartzel will be exhibiting at in a solo show at Streetlevel in Glasgow in 2002, and has been shortlisted for the Stills Photography Prize 2001.
Claudine Hartzel
close to you is curated by Lisa Le Feuvre
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